Whenever I See Tom [ Cavanagh] -

I Think Because The Show ["grant Maclaren"] Is Essentially A Hopeful Show. The Show Says That As Bleak As The Future Is, The One Thing That Mankind Developed Was The Ability To Send Their Consciousness Back And Where A Lot Of The Institutions Of Modern Life Have Fallen Apart.

As A Television Actor, There's A Power You're Given To Use Your Image To Do Something Valuable. As A Parent, These Messages Are Particularly Important To Me.

I Had Run Into Kari Lizer At An Airport, I Think, And She Said, "would You Come On The Show [ The New Adventures Of Old Christine]?" And I Said, "god. Absolutely."

So This ["grant Maclaren"] Was A Chance To Sort Of Go Back And Do A More Leading Man. But Instead Of Just Solving Crimes Like A Csi Show, This Leading Man Is, Like The Other Travelers, Not Who He Appears.

The Things Had Been Made A Half A Dozen Times From Silent Pictures Through The '30s And '40s. In Fact, I Think There's A Version In The '50s. And Then, Of Course, Spielberg Eventually Did A Version Of The Lost World, But This [filming] Was '91, I Think. And We Shot It In Zimbabwe.